Popcorn Revolver

This week the lads talk about Raising Arizona (1987). Mitch leads the conversion about this early Coen Brothers classic.

This week the boys kick off cult classics month with Lucas's pick The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Directed by Jim Sharman this icon of pop culture redefined the cinema experience, and is undoubtably the cult classic film of cult classic films.

Ben is the host with the most this week for The Graduate (1967). The film was directed by Mike Nichols and is an icon of cinema.

Mitch is the host with the most this week for In the Mood for Love (2000). Directed by Wong Kar Wai, this weeks film is all about love unrealized.

This week the boys kick off bittersweet month, with Lucas's pick Brokeback Mountain. It was released in 2005 and directed by Ang Lee.

This week the boys dig into Slacker, the 1990 Richard Linklater picture. Ben is the host with the most this week as they try to unravel the threads of this cult classic.

This week the boys talk about Mitch's budget pick 1999's The Wind Will Carry Us. This Abbas Kiarostami film follows a small crew Iranian of journalists, visiting a small Kurdish village.

The boys open 2026 with budget films. This week they tackle 2020's Shiva Baby. A tense comedy by Emma Seligman.

A little update on where the boys are going in 2026.

The boys wrap up 2025, with some thoughtful reflection. They ask each other questions, and dish out superlatives for the films covered on the pod.

The Lads learn to yearn with this weeks film Pride & Prejudice(2005). Directed by Joe Wright this is an adaptation of Jane Austin's groundbreaking 1813 novel.

The boys get our their burn book for 2004's Mean Girls; the iconic film written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters. Lucas lead the lads as the host with the most this week for his feel good pick.

The lads do the time warp again with Ben's feel good pick River (2023). This two minute time loop film, directed by Junta Yamaguchi, tells the tale of a small Japanese Onsen town.

The boys and Kyra wrap up the documentary epoch with The Last of the Sea Women. The 2024 film by Sue Kim, which explores the lives of fisherwomen on Jeju Island, South Korea. These Sea Women's lives are hard and complicated, as the world changes around them.

This week the boys watched the 2014 documentary Fed Up, directed by Stephanie Soechtig. They dig into the films perspective of the U.S's obesity epidemic.

The guys kick off the documentary epoch with 2017's Where Dreams Go To Die, directed by Ethan Newberry. The film centers on ultra marathon runner Gary Robbins' quest to finish the Barkley Marathons, an extreme endurance race of over 100 miles through the backwoods of Tennessee.

They boys are finally back to round out the multiverse/time-travel epoch. This week they looked at Mitch's pick Arrival(2016) from director Denis Villenuve.

This week the lads cut into the 2022 Oscar winning phenomenon Everything Everywhere All at Once. They explore this wild ride of a film through it's multiverse of themes.

The boys kick off the multiverse/timef**kery epoch with Coherence the 2014 James Ward Byrkit indie flick. They tackle the web of time lines and universes created by a passing comet.

The boys talk about La chimera(2023), a dreamy slow burn from Alice Rohrwacher. They dig into the films themes of loss, obsession, and bad influences.

The boys are back this time to unpack 1963's High & Low, an Akira Kurosawa picture. Mitch is the host with the most this week, as the crew explore this Japanese classic thriller/crime drama.

This week the gang break down Some Like it Hot, the 1959 Billy Wilder feature. The lads look at how old films engaging with gender as performance, sexism, and the male gaze can be analyzed with today's perspective.

This week the bros hang ten with Point Break, the 1991 classic. In this wet and wild Kathryn Bigelow joint, the crew analyze themes of toxic masculinity, antiestablishmentism, and modes of justice.

This week the lads watched Sorry to Bother You. A witty 2018 comedy by debutante filmmaker and rapper Boots Riley. The boys take a look at the films themes of exploitation, race, and late stage capitalism.

This week the boys watched Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. HVSCSP is an Ariane Louis-Seize comedy which explores ideas of belonging, self-actualization, and loneliness.

They Boys are joined by guess host Kyra, as the discuss the 2019 French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Mitch is the host with the most this week as the crew analyze the films depictions of queer love, art as power, and the female gaze.

Lucas, Ben, and Mitch try to get to grips with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a Yorgos Lanthimos picture. Lucas is the host with the most this week as the boys tackle this strange film. They discuses how power dynamics, Greek mythology, and destiny all have a part to play in the film.

This week the boys break down Another Round, a Mads Mikkelsen led feature. Ben is the MC this episode, as the group gets to grips with the films themes of altered states, celebrating life, and dealing with a midlife malaise.

Lucas, Ben, and Mitch analyze Sound of Metal, a 2019 Darius Marder Film. Mitch hosts this week as the boys examine the films themes of ablism, life altering events, addiction and self harm.

Lucas, Ben, and Mitch analyze First Cow, a 2019 Kelly Reichardt picture. The boys wrestle with the films subtle themes of friendship, colonialism vs naturalism, and exploitation vs opportunity.

Lucas, Ben, and Mitch are old friends from different film worlds coming together to talk movies the others have never seen. In the pilot for the pod, Lucas, Ben, and Mitch introduce each other to Saltburn, Straight Up, and Falling Down. Join them as they Block, Bluster, and Podcast.Saltburn (1:54)Straight Up (28:41)Falling Down (58:21)Who picked the Best Film (1:29:10)What we will be talking about next week: Sound of Metal, Suspiria (2018), First Cow.Thanks to the two people who listen to this rough first episode.